How do judges of the Appellate Court of Illinois reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Appellate Court of Illinois / Joined 2002 / Served to 2006

Tobias Barry

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Tobias Barry was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2006 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barry authored 627 published opinions for the court (1975–2006), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Luciani v. Bestor (53 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 12 of these were attributed to Barry by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1982	Luciani v. Bestor	436 N.E.2d 251	53
1979	Penrod v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.	385 N.E.2d 376	48
2005	In Re Marriage of Murphy	834 N.E.2d 56	47
2005	Central Illinois Electrical Services, L.L.C. v. Slepian· Concurrence†	358 Ill. App. 3d 545	46
1984	People v. Evans	461 N.E.2d 634	44
1977	City of Wyoming v. Illinois Liquor Control Commission	362 N.E.2d 1080	43
1975	Heifner v. Board of Education of Morris Community High School District No. 101	335 N.E.2d 600	41
1992	Phillips v. Johnson	599 N.E.2d 4	39
1991	People v. Stewart	577 N.E.2d 175	39
1976	Rhodes v. Sigler	357 N.E.2d 846	39
1982	People v. Bone	432 N.E.2d 329	37
1978	People v. Nichols	377 N.E.2d 815	37
1975	People v. Young	337 N.E.2d 40	36
1980	People v. Gulliford	407 N.E.2d 1094	35
1980	People v. Martin	401 N.E.2d 13	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 632 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Appellate Court of Illinois reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Tobias Barry on?: Tobias Barry was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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4 years on the Appellate Court of Illinois. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).